ah ah ah this is the w news live for then get hutch florida cuts his ties to rushes of all sniffed. the old giant says the former german leader is leaving its board shorter was facing the threat of sanctions over his ties to the kremlin. ukraine's president says that don bass is completely destroyed. mister lansky says russia has

turned the eastern region into hell. his government says roches on sport has trapped civilians trying to fleet dw meets the ukrainians who have made a subway station in hopkins. they had long term shelter. authorities want them out, but some are afraid to return to their homes. russian president vladimir putin coals on his security council to keep hack is off roches internet. he says cyber attack as a targeting russia more since the invasion of ukraine. us u. s. president joe biden touches down in south korea. the talks with new liter you'll still cure global security issues are said to dominate the agenda, but by them starts his visit at a computer chip factory will find out why a i've been phys all and welcome is invasion of ukraine is almost in its 3rd month

but only now has for much of a chance. the gas shorter resigned from the board of directors of moscow based oil company was sniffed. he's been under growing pressure both at home and abroad. earlier this week, the european parliament called for him to face sanctions. if he didn't quit his posts with russian energy funds, he's also a close friend of flooded a potent shorter was previously expected to take a top java russian gas jive gas from. now that's looking less likely. he's what our political correspondent had to say about the man some in germany, a describing as an international embarrassment. the disappointment is growing that the former chancellor is only now reacting where you have a institutions possibly also waging sanctions. that's what they, you, parliament said that people that are close to the industries close of the russian states should be a punished taking the decision. now it's of course difficult to look into his head

to try to read his mind, but a, the big difference to other german politicians also within the s p d party that were part of the government of anger law, macro. no. so before angle america, when gach florida still was in office half apologize and have said that there's was a mistake by germany to be a dependent to russian oil, russian gas, a, the consequences that we're seeing now. but what many a criticising is that get trader is not showing any remorse. he gave an interview, longing to be the cause, to steer in germany a saying, i don't do medical, but it's not a my thing. so it definitely the pressure is still expected to continue even after this decision that was announced today. this whole idea of fostering economic ties with russia was to see the country moved towards a more democratic system. german leaders have admitted that was a mistake. but what his ties seem to be more about personal gain, you're absolutely right. it's not just about the business ties that he had

a he helped and he also put forward this dependents heated lobbying for russia for several years with the pipelines, with the dependencies, a personal friend of letting me put in. so it's not just the business ties. many were wondering if he would take a stance if you would try to distance himself from the russian president after moscow's invasion in the ukraine. he did not do so. it was growing pression, not only from the position but also from the s p d, a party. and now with the decision that was taken by the bonus tag committee yesterday to strip the former chancellor from some of the privileges that he has. although he will retain the pension also the security detail, he will not have an office at the bonus talk any more. may with many saying that it's just because there is a possibility of sanctions by european institution also by growing pressure after this decision. by the bonus sac yesterday, dw political correspond benyamin of a high school. but thank you very much. and here are some other developments in the

war and ukraine. german chance though love show it says contact will play a central role in germany's plans to cut its dependence on russian gas. after talks in berlin with katara, emma shake, tom im in tani. she said, germany would construct infrastructure to import liquefied natural gas by ship khattab wants to start sending allergy to germany. in 2024. finland signed a deal with the u. s. company to buy liquefied natural gas off to russia said it would hold supplies because helsinki refused to pay in rubles gas. any accounts for 5 percent of finland's energy needs. officials say there'll be no disruption to consumers. russian missiles have hit a grain warehouse in easton, ukraine officials say the storage facility southeast of south risha is now completely unusable. russia has repeatedly targeted ukraine's greenway houses and other civilian infrastructure. ukrainian president, florida. miss lensky says,

russian forces have completely destroyed the industrial region of the dumbass. according to the regional governor, russian shelling killed at least 12 people and wooded dozens in the eastern city of pharaoh don't. yeah, it's ukrainian defense ministry said intense fighting. there is preventing civilians from fling the area growing ukrainian, our forces continue to make progress in liberating the heart of region bicycle. but the occupiers of trying to further strengthen the pressure and the don bus is held there. and that's not an exaggeration. department of separate barnett's is brutal and absolutely senseless. for more now and joined by our corresponded mathias building. it has in common tosca city, in the dumbass region, about 50 kilometers away from the fighting mathias ukraine is now evacuating silva civilians from seattle done yet, as russia continues its assault on the dumbass. what's the latest on the situation there? well, we're hearing that today 20 by some sources 25 people have been evacuated from this,

from the city. many have left before, but there are still a considerable number of people left there and the conditions are more and more dire. the problem is that the road that leads out of 0 then yes goes, it is within reach of the rush, not hillary. and often this road is shell, so it's a times very dangerous to leave the city. and that's the biggest problem. it isn't, we're not talking about a 2nd mario, paul, there is still a road in, but the road is dangerous and it's a very difficult situation. now. we're hearing that time time after time there are trying to restore. but for example, the gas supply natural gas for, for cooking, et cetera. but many people don't have electricity and gas. it can you bring us up to date on the situation in mary open? we've been talking over the past days about the as all star still works, where some soldiers had surrendered to russian troops. we are hearing now that the

ukrainian, or general staff has given the command for all of them to surrender and to save their lives. this is one of the commanders of the as of battalion, whoever has made this public. so that implies that they will comply with this and that probably within the next few hours the days everybody will be out of the steel plant. they have been there for a very long time. they have been defending the city. and as the russians have advanced, more and more, they have fled into the steel, which they have in there without further supplies for weeks. now, if you look at them, they are very and they've lost a lot of weight and some of them have injuries. many were injured and couldn't be treated. the conditions were very diane, it seems that this is at the point where it's not possible to keep on, and they are now being taken in by the russians. and then it might be later swap for russian prisoners of war. but there seems to be an agreement, but it's far from clear whether this will happen. okay, you were in

a half kiff earlier today, which is once again in ukrainian hands. after russian troops were driven back authorities, there are eager to restore public life. but the only way them, yes, it was always in ukraine and hands, but the russian troops are very close to the limit to the border, the city. and they have been shelling it, but it was in ukraine. nancy, but ukraine has taken back some territories in the suburbs of. hark, if. okay, well let's have a look at your report which goes into as some of the obstacles that local authorities. they're coming up against a fight. they came here to flee the bombs. and now they don't want to leave people who have been living in the subway station are petitioning the government to let them stay subway stations here and hargrove, have been serving as bomb shelters since the beginning of the war. ve katherine at alpa and her husband have been living here since the very 1st day. you do have

a virus that he really i go home every 3 weeks, so they semester, but i always need to prepare myself mentally before i can go. without the moisture with them and i run home and take a bath so we can wash here is that the conditions are not ideal. util, so there's a lot of my life is dealing others don't have a choice. they do not have a place to go back to any more. this station is the terminal station of the metro line, the northernmost station in the city. it's closest to the front line and to those areas that have been most heavily shell. the shelling of hargrove has all but subsided, and the local government wants to get the subway system running again. it wants the people to leave the metro and is offering to relocate them. but many here don't trust the piece, nor was i from the she had a law and yet on look, i had you go out on the street sometimes. but the fear is always there that it for, it is not that easy video,

we need time to overcome at not done her on the subway station, many of the houses have been destroyed in some streets, barely a horse has been untouched. olga has also spent the past months in a subway is the 1st time she's come back to see the apartment where she lived with her mother and her son. she was told that there was damage, but she didn't know how bad it was. told us. it's terrible all along with with shell hit a wall in one of the rooms. there's debris, everywhere. she documents everything. people can report the damage on the government website, but nobody knows how long it will take to get any support.

we ended up going my knees or shaking my knees, that actually shaking. i still can't believe it or probably i knew that the windows were broken when you were parked. if only that shower hadn't hated. yeah, and there wasn't a hole in the wall. we might still somehow move back or the house is still standing, but this is different. fairly for now the only thing to do is to collect some of their belongings. they will not move back to the subway, but to a relative's house mathias, it must be hard coming back to your apartment, to your home and seeing it absolutely shattered to pieces. how people coping with it? well, the thing is that i'm other special in the city has now east because the russians are the ukrainian army has taken back some of the territory north of the city are

used to be a russian control. and from where the city has been shell. so the house that we went to this apartment was just on the edge of the city, the very last building of, of the city in that place. and the russians were standing right there. and they were shooting at these houses, so it was impossible to live there. and now of course people come back, but most of the houses looked like this. so most, most of the houses in this street are damaged, burned out. and that concerns many people. and many of them don't trust the piece yet. many people also in other parts of town, it's considerably more empty then, for example, key of uh, where the russian troops were driven back for weeks earlier. and that is already coming back to some kind of a, of a more normal life. but there, it's still pretty empty. it's not as empty as here where we 50 kilometers from the front line here year people have really left because they expect something to

happen. there people are a little bit weary of it, whether it's really already ok to go out and they've already gotten used to being shelled that much, that they don't trust the piece that is bearing for us in ukraine. thank you very much for your reporting. president vladimir putin says russia's been facing a growing number of cyber attack since he sent troops to you. great. in an address to his security council. couldn't blame foreign states for a badge of attacks on government agencies, media, and financial institutions. he ordered officials to enhance security, adding the ration needed to boost its defenses by cutting its reliance on foreign hardware and software. so now by emily, sherwin who was our moscow correspond before the upper, you had to close its office there. and we would stood out to you in putin's address, well, put in was essentially saying that russia is facing a coordinated information war as he was calling it by foreign governments. he didn't mention which governments,

but we can only assume that he means the west in general, presumably also ukraine. he mentioned that sanctions have had an effect on russia's ability to access i t technology, but he took a very defiant stance as usual. he said that russia has been preparing for this for years and that they now need to do. they do need to do more to protect their government systems, websites and essential infrastructure. but they still plan to switch to only home grown hardware and software when it comes to protecting of russia. he said by 2025 . and it's also an information that he started when he launched his invasion of ukraine. he would disagree i'm. i'm sure he would, does russia have enough homegrown talent, though, and technology to taught the use of foreign i to look it's been and it's been a long term narrative within russia that russia is trying to create its own products, its own hardware, software, and other products in fact, in general, and also a more independent internet,

at least that's what the authorities call it. there is this project for several years now of creating an autonomous internet, which essentially means that russia wants to be able to cut off its own internet from the world wide web and authorities. of course that's to protect from cyber attacks. critics, a, it's for censorship. but of course, these sanctions now are much more sudden, i think, than the russian government was expecting. so that means that, that russia cut off from u. s. exports. and, you know, of computers, how communications equipment, you know, the actual hardware of it all. and there's also another problem which is that this, the, there's a huge brain drain. so essentially, last month, the russian association of electronic communication tools, rushes parliament that between 50070000. i t specialists have left the country since the war began. so not really they would say no hearse, any russian young russian entrepreneurs i've spoken to are interested in developing systems for other countries to the battlefront. they tell us about the state of the

russian army with the parliament now said to started listing over forties. well, they've said there is they say draft build that they're looking into widening the age bracket of who can be, you know, fighting in this war. and the parliamentarians who drafted this bill say that they want the most professional experts to join, that includes people over the age of 40, which makes it sound like a desperate. it does make it sound like they're desperate. we don't know, of course, the sate of the russian army, but this is one of, in one of the indications that things might not be going to plan, that they want to broaden the amount of people that are kind of being drafted in, for example, their media reports that there are thousands of job ads for jobs as a soldiers on line as well. now, i'm sure russians are seeing those and wondering what's going on and we'll show it . thank you very much filling us in why many and russia back vladimir putin. others have left the country because they oppose the invasion. they're now

living in exile in various places including israel did use on your call met a film director who tells the stories of russian children raised in a culture promoting militarism and nationalism. building a new home a so me tree bubble lubricant has family fled moscow at the beginning of march, leaving behind their former life as kremlin critical film makers. he says he and his wife had no choice when the war started was absolute illness that we have to live. so, and we're like, we haven't slept and eat anything because we're so emotionally or devastated and they follow the news with great concern. but lube of says, he's not surprised by the allegations of atrocities committed by the russian army. his 2019 documentary town of glory shows russians. lot of the military and how even

children are indoctrinated with the attitude towards violence and russia. any kind of violence or is very m like it is a mere think like to be to your kid. if you're a teacher to shout on a students to torture some animal, the violence is normal thing for russia. i believe that this is the root of law. what is happening now in ukraine following day for gender? well, the film also deals with the propaganda protein and his aides have used over the years to convince russians that the west is their enemy. within

a good idea born over for years, many russians are still almost tell jake about the former soviet union polka loop of sas one. that's why many of them support the war in ukraine. oh, put in. just doing what people want. she feels the people's aspirations. yes, she warms it up. she a, make it more and more and more aggressive. but still she doing what people want him to do. luba and his wife obtained is rarely citizenship . after the annexation of crimea, they wanted a safe haven, which israel offers to immigrants with curiosity. they miss russia, but as long as putin isn't power latency and future you as president joe

biden is on his 1st presidential trip to asia starting and south korea. he's held talks with you president, you secure the journey, which will also take him to japan is intended to counter chinese influence and cement us leadership in asia is expected to address concerns connected to russia's invasion of ukraine. but he 1st visited a samsung semiconductor plant, one much like the factory, the electronics giant pines, the building texas, addressing the global shortage of computer chips is a key element of buttons trip. i asked so based journalist frank smith, why biden had chosen to visit now and why he didn't go to japan 1st? well, i think this is something to reward the incoming president noon. so you know, he's just been in office since may 10th. he was inaugurated may 10th and he ran on a platform of shifting the u. s. policy in the region, economically and security affairs toward the u. s. and strengthen the u. s.

alliance. i also think it has something to do, perhaps with president, by launching the indo pacific economic framework, which is scheduled to do in japan and perhaps wants to make that a crowning achievement of this visit here. as part of its conclusion bent as we speak. china is holding military exercises in the dispute itself, trying to see in there. there are fees the visit could be overshadowed by some kind of north korean miss. ar test, how bother to the president about that? well, president biden had been rumored to, to possibly schedule a visit to the d. m z that's been quelled whether that will take place. that's the demilitarized zone that heavily fortified border separating north and south korea. he was going to visit there whether he is going to visit there, i think is up in the air. and they have an action plan in place in a, in a bunker under president musicals, new office, which is right near the ministry of national defense. and the american military

base young, san camp humphreys, in the middle of the south korean capital. so you also want to strengthen the alliance with the, with the u. s. as i mentioned. and this is a big part of what they'll talk about. more 3 is launch 15 missiles so far this year, and they've prepared their gay re site for another potential nuclear test. so the stance toward north korea is something they'll be talking about certainly to morrow when they hold their summit with tensions with north korea. and this was going on in ukraine. why visit a computer chip factory? well, if we remember early in the pandemic in, in, even up until now there's been problems with the supply chain round the world, especially computer chips. samsung electronics produces many computer chips and other electronic products that really suffered from supply chain challenges.

up until today, the samsung electronics invested $17000000000.00 or willingboro, $17000000000.00 in a factory in texas. so again, i think the president is rewarding. samsung, c, e o, e j, mom who accompanied president biden and president noon on their, on their tour, their factory down and down in chung tech. so so, so from, so then frank smith and so forth. thank you very much. good talking to germany is to take that it's 1st case of the ram monkey pulse fires, the armed forces medical services, the case was found in a patient in munich. the world health organization is concerned, the buyers could spread throughout europe this summer. a growing number of cases of now been reported in european countries and elsewhere. normally the virus is found of the in africa searches. i perplexed as many of the new cases are and people who

haven't been there. monkey pox is aware of viral infection, usually found and small mammals in west and central africa. this bed of the virus is usually caused by people traveling to those areas. but for the 1st time, the disease appears to be spreading among people who have not traveled to africa. germany, belgium, italy, and sweden had become the latest countries to confirm cases. following britain, portugal, spain, and the united states. there is something very unusual in terms of the speed in which it spread and also the long incubation time, 12 days and sometimes potentially 21 days. mean that you could silently incubate him many people before we realized that in australia, one man who had recently returned from britain is also infected. a 2nd case was awaiting confirmation. the individual has been diagnosed and victoria came

from london. so i flew on the 14th landed in abu dhabi and then was on an ebay dobb melbourne flies landing in the early morning of the 16th. i had some symptoms prior to being on the flight but has attended for medical care almost immediately. monkey pox, similar to humans, smallpox, though milder. most people recover from it in a few weeks. symptoms include fever and headache, feeling tired and swollen glance. the virus is usually transferred through close bodily contact, a bodily fluids. their world health organization says the general public should be aware of unusual skin rashes and acknowledged that there were still many unknowns. also in terms of transmission. one of the theories of health officials is that the disease is now being sexually transmitted, but further investigation is needed. coming up next in detail,

you use asia. the telephone's latest decree, women presented, can't show their face on tv. how do afghanistan's women see their future under this regime? and how this newsletter has become a ticket to have better life as some st kids in india? will that more with rich manager coming up after a short break? i'm been puzzling to you again soon. here on the d, w ah, ah ah ah ah

ah ah mm. with positions international perspectives,

sweden and finland want to join the military alliance, also decades of neutrality. so will it make them safer, a nato stronger, and is russia right available for them before i find out until the point shortly. to the point in 60 minutes on d. w. and we're interested in the global economy. our portfolio, d w business beyond. here's a closer look at the project. our mission to analyze the fight for market dominance. if this is way ahead with the w business beyond a little guys, this is the 77 percent the platform for africa. you beat issues and share ideas,

you know, or this channel. we are not afraid to happen. delicate because population is growing. and young people clearly have the solutions. the future belongs to the 77 percent every weekend on d w. this is dee the of the news asia coming up to day one more step towards erasing women from afghanistan, society the taliban forbid, women present to us from showing their faces on tv. it's the latest in a long line of dictates that leads us to ask do with the taliban wanted society without women.